Instructions: Type your answers below the appropriate questions.
Reflective Learning Journal Task 1.1
These questions are for you to check that you have understood the section above and are to be recorded in your Reflective Learning Journal. These questions only require a short response.
Q1. Is the teaching of English as a Foreign Language increasing or decreasing around the world?
It is increasing
Q2. What was the most widely studied language five hundred years ago?
Latin
Q3. What is the most widely studied language today?
English
Q4. Which family of languages does English derive from?
Indo-European
Q5. What do we call the family of languages that English, German, Dutch, Swedish and Danish belong to?
Indo-European
Q6. In how many countries is English an official or semi-official language?
60 countries
Q7. Is it true or false that a number of words have changed in meaning over the years.
True
Reflective Learning Journal Task 1.2
Write about how you learned a foreign language in no less than 500 words.
Reflective Learning Journal Task 1.3
These questions are for you to check that you have understood the section above. These questions only require a short response.
Q1. Which methodology had its origins in the Second World War?
Q2. Who developed the methodology known as the 'Natural Approach’?
Q3. Which methodology is holistic in its approach?
Questions to Unit One
Section A Questions
Q1.1 This is an essay of no less than 250 words.
Discuss the extent of the Anglophone world. You must include the following information:
- countries in which English is a first or native language
- countries in which English holds legal status as the primary language
- countries in which English holds legal status as a secondary language
- countries and regions in which English is widely spoken as a business language
- regions and international bodies in which English is upheld as a recognised language
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